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Somalia : PUNTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY

Mission Statement
Mission PSU’s mission is to provide the best attainable, affordable, non-profit world-standard sustainable higher education for all Somalis. http://www.4icu.org/reviews/10983.htm A Message from the PSU –Dean of Academic Affairs We have developed programmes that will equip you with the knowledge, skills and understanding to be successful in your future carreer. Programmes at PSU provide you with many opportunities including intellectual development, knowledge acquision and personal skills development. Strving to meet the challenges set by the course, solving problems with your newfound knowledge and acquiring skills for lifelong learining will be facilitated at PSU. You should see your time as partinership where we facilitate learning opportunities and where you take an increase part in your own personal development and contribute to the quality of the course and the learning experience of your peers The programmes require a high level of commitment and hard work on your part. The staff at PSU will respond positively to your success and will support you when challenge arises. We look forward to our interactions with you and hope that you have a most enjoyable and productive period here Good Luck http://www.4icu.org/reviews/10983.htm E-Learning Online Distance E-Learning has initiated Garoowe into the global academic village. The Online Distance E-Learning has not only enabled willing students get knowledge of their interest, but has also initiated Garoowe into the active members of global academic village club by bringing International educational opportunities to the community’s doorstep. Thus you will not be surprised to find students actively visiting renowned Educational centers of the world in the town’s cyber cafés!

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HeadQuarters: 142 GAROWE, PUNTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
Organization Contacts
  • Email: kaaloorg@yahoo.com
  • Telephone: 252-090-741889
  • Title/Division: PSU, GAROWE
  • Contact Person/Office: 002525 846238- Administration


Organization Details

Puntland State University's History

Puntland State University (PSU) has its roots entrenched from the patriotic and humanitarian joint efforts of KAALO (local NGO) and Diakonia of Sweden that has been instrumental in providing the much needed financial support, physical structures and equipment. Kaalo was started with the aim of improving the livelihood of the Somali people through the provision of basic needs in sustainable and environmentally sound approach.

One way to achieve this mandate is through the promotion of higher education in Puntland. Towards this end, the idea of Puntland State University was borne. The provision of higher Education in Puntland started with a women training institute (Garowe School of Management) where a one – year certificate program in basic arithmetic’s, simple bookkeeping, Office practice, Computer literacy, English communication skills and management courses were offered.

Sixty women graduated after the one-year program and have currently found formal placements in various Employment bodies in Puntland such as local and international N.G.O.S, Government and the private sector with some furthering their education. Encouraged by the success of Garowe school of management, and the expressed need for higher education, particularly girls education in Puntland and the entire Somalia, Kaalo Relief and Development Agency, along with other stakeholders, transformed the school into a two- year college with programs in management, Accounting, In formation Technology, and English language renaming it the Puntland Community College (PCC).

Kaalo, with PCC at its waking moments, successfully organized a fund raising and community mobilization to construct the PCC Premises, purchase generator, land for expansion (40m by 80m), library books and furniture. At the college, sixty-five students graduated with an impressive gender parity of 34 females and 31 males. Eighty five percent of these were the internally displaced peoples (IDPs)- the price of the continuing civil disorder in Somalia. Most of these graduates are currently working with the Government, Aid Agencies and or the Private sector, while others have gone for further Education.

After careful assessment of the then curriculum, policy and operation systems, a consultancy team of academicians in Higher Education Curriculum Development from USIU- Nairobi, under the funding of UNDP, proposed PCC to offer programs leading to Diploma [1-2 years], Associate Degrees [2 years] and Bachelors Degrees [4 years] in the field of Business Administration, Public Administration, and Information Technology while renaming the institution to Puntland State University [PSU].

The consultancy team did propose mechanisms and strategies to be implemented towards improving the academic policies, non-academic policies and the human resource management.

A five year comprehensive strategic plan (currently under implementation) prepared by full consultative and participatory methodology put forward recommendations for PSU to capitalize efficiently, effectively, and economically in its immense potential by expanding gradually its academic and extra-curricula programs to cover more essential priority areas for knowledge, skills, and attitude development countrywide, as it has a competitive advantage over other institutions in the state.

The institution keeps growing as a new batch of students is enrolled every year in the month of October for the University and the Pre-University level program, which aims to prepare and offer an opportunity to those students not fully qualified for University entrance examination. Currently the institution’s student population is two hundred; this is however bound to increase with subsequent enrollments.

Being the fastest growing institution of higher learning in Puntland, its location in Garowe (the Capital of Puntland state), establishment of functional Government operations and the emergent peace and stability in the greater Somalia, PSU boosts of well equipped IT center with pending installation of VSAT for distance learning facility, highly dedicated and qualified faculty, well developed meeting facilities (multipurpose hall) and other vital physical structures including learner friendly lecture halls that makes capacity building programs a thriving reality.

PSU is the most preferred destination for short-term certificate programs in Computer literacy, Basic business management and entrepreneurship skills, Governance and Democracy, Financial planning and management to mention but a few. The institution is ideal for capacity building programs as seen by the preference of such bodies as, the Government, International Community and Local N.G.O.s (Care International, Save the Children, UNDP, U.N.Habitat, UNESCO, OCHA, DPRD, HADMA UNCHR and UNICEF) and the private sector to hold meetings, seminars and workshops there.

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